Forum user: masonjo

I use the jquery tools a fair amount and love what it can do. I also like the jquery.cycle plugin for slideshows. I have a site that is trying to use both on the same page. It works fine in FF, but not on IE8. You get a 'constructor' is null or not an object error from jquery.cycle, but it I do not use flashembed it works fine - so it seems to be a conflict and I am hoping that you can help.

BOTH WORK IN FF

Here is a page with both turned on and it errors:
http://d352896.host30.mastifftech.com/services2

Here is a page with flashembed not turned on (but jquery tools with flashembed is still loaded) and the cycle plugin works:
http://d352896.host30.mastifftech.com/services

Any ideas? It seems like flashembed overwrites a variable that cycle uses.

x3.js is my code and it loads flashembed from the swfinsert function and uses some on dom load logic to determine what needs to run.

Our systems are built so that we can use simple html tags with classes and metadata to fire off things like cycle, flashembed, video, etc. - but you can see this in firebug (where it does work).

Thanks,
John Mason

I have videos that play without any controls, have a transparent background, wmode is transparent, play is null and are using SimpleCDN to stream. This all works, but sometimes within the flash area when it is loading I see a portion of a large circle spinner for a moment before the video starts. I think it might be part of flowplayer.swf that shows before the canvas or playback area are loaded. Is there anyway to get rid of this spinner?

I have an flv that when I play in a local flv player ends with the video fading to white. When I play it back through FP using RTMP with Stormfront/Simplecdn the video ends a partial second before the end and the end image is partially faded.

The video is 62 seconds long.

I have few options, but can not figure out how to get any of them to work:

1. End the video a few frames earlier, but duration 61.5 does not seem to work. Can you use partial seconds for duration? If so, how?

2. Pad the end of the video. Set the duration to 63, this makes it fade to white, but no Play Again button shows up. Do I need to use scripting to override this? Can this be done with partial seconds? Is there a simple example of how to do this?

3. String together videos, the original and a 1 second blank? Will this work? I have not tried this. Can I string on an image for the end?

Or am I just missing something to get this to work the why it should?

Thanks,
john

I think it would be nice if there were a simple PDF that had all the configuration options listed in it. It should include all the plugins (seperate pages?) and one or two monster samples (single movie, placelist, ?) that showed all of the options in them in the right place, with comments (so a reader can just figure out what to remove). It does not need all the examples from the online documentation.

Hello,

I am working on a customer website. It has a banner area at the top. I replace this area with an flv movie that auto plays, does not have controls or the play again at the end.

FYI...I am using SimpleCDN and pseudostreaming, the movie does not have sound.

I can get it to work and I can get the play again to not show. However here are my issues/what happens:

1. The page loads and the area has an image from CSS that matches the start of the movie (basically a minimal background)

2. After a second or so, flowplayer loads and makes this area a big solid colored box, which I figured out how to make match the color of the area to some degree. This stays there for a second or so.

3. The flowplayer logo pops up, only for a split second.

4. Then the movie starts and works fine - no controls, no play again.

I would like to know if there is any way to get steps 2 and 3 not to happen. I would be willing to buy the commercial version, but I really want to know that it will work the way I want.

I am OK with the empty background being there for a bit, if the movie can just show up directly - no solid box, no logo.

Thank You

Thank you. The second argument needed : instead of =, but then it worked. I looked in the docs, but could not find what parameters can be used with this 2nd argument, is there a way to use a background image instead of a solid color?

I just tried wmode:'transparent' and that worked better, but the logo part still has a gradient on it. I tried logo:{backgroundGradient:'none'} but that did not help. Can this be removed? If I go commercial would I then be able to remove it?

At this URLhttp://www.aptow.com/home you can see what is happening.

I want a banner in a website to use an FLV to have some photos show up, no controls and must start automatically.

It works, but as the movie loads you see a flash of black before the background changes and the movie starts to load.

I am OK with the logo flashing up for a second, but if I had the commercial version could I get rid of this also?

Thank You